Brynlee learned the Pledge of Allegiance!!

Christmas 2010

We had a GREAT Christmas this year!! The kids all got what they wanted and then some!! I think they got SPOILED! Anyways, we woke up around 7:30 and started the chaos! Then it was time to go hit all the parties throughout the day! It was great to spend time with all the families and enjoy eating TONS of food and enjoying everybodys company! Now that Christmas is over, it can stop being cold and get me WARM weather! LOL

showing off their Christmas jammies!

                                        of course there HAS to be a silly one! They make me laugh!

                                       Brynlee was SOOO excited that she got an American  Doll....which  she                                                          named Kailey. :)

                                              All dressed up in their new church clothes!

HOPE EVERYONE HAD A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!! WE SURE DID!!.....now seriously bring on the warm weather!!

My Birthday!

This is the surprise I got while at work today!!! LILLIES! They are GORGEOUS! Thanks to my hubs! he is the BEST! I seriously was so shocked that they were mine! I also got a new outfit, that I LOVE!(sorry no pic) and we ended the night on a date to Steves Steakhouse which was absolutely DELISH!! The steak ends were to DIE for! perfect way to end a birthday!

Gingerbread houses and SANTA!

 This past Sunday was the Payne's annual Gingerbread house making and a special visit from the big jolly guy! my mom made wonderful soups again this year! clam chowder and chicken tortilla soup! they were sooo yummy!! I went down on Friday to put all these darn gingerbread houses together.....10 of these suckers!!!

 This is what happens when you let a 3 year old get ahold of the red frosting! LOL

                                    Brynlee and her finished gingerbread house!

                                                   Porter and his finished house! Braxton wasnt done with his yet and then santa came and I totally forgot to get a pic of it later!

                                  here is Elder Harlan sitting on santas lap telling him what he wants for Christmas!!

                                            Brynlee telling santa what she wants!

                                                     Braxton telling Santa what he wants!

                                                    and Porte telling him what he wants!

                             Brynlee was SO excited that she got not only a Barbie, but a BELLE one!!

Pumpkin Days and Halloween!

Once again we had our annual Pumpkin Days with the Utleys. we had great food, and great laughs! we always have a good time carving and painting our pumpkins!  But I didn't get any pics of the after looks.

                                        Braxton and Eli (what a good babysitter!)

                                             Porter picking out his pumpkin!

                                                                      Best Friends!
                                                                  Brynlee and Scarlet

                                                   painting their pumpkins!

                              of course we went apple bobbing!! always a good laugh! Porters turn!

                                                                Brynlee's turn!

                                                                  and......she got one! :)

I was TERRIBLE about taking pictures on Halloween! Terrible I say! But here is Brax all decked out!

   Porter....not quite sure what he is suppose to be...I guess some wierd baseball player! LOL he changed his costume about 3 different times!

                                                cute little witch!!!

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Josh decided it would be a great idea to go and scare people (family members) by just walking in their homes and not saying a word. just walk around and then walk out of the house! he said it was the FUNNIEST thing EVER!! LOL! he said he has never seen some of the people so scared before! Nobody ever thought it was Josh because he normally would not do anything like that! He sure looked scary though! we had a good laugh!!

Gooseberry!

At the first of the school year, Porter got to go on the anual Gooseberry Field Trip where all the 3rd grade get to go to a little camp and stay overnight and learn about many different things! I got the opportunity to go along with him! (and I got paid to go too...BONUS! thats the perks of working at a school!) anyways we enjoyed being up there and Porter got to learn about Fire Safety, Mapping, ATV Safety, Wildlife, and of course we can't forget about seeing Annie Bangs that night! she was the talk of the whole grade!

                                              This was a live BAT! eewww! sick!

                                                          Ellie the Elephant was even there!

                                           Smokey the Bear stopped by for a visit and we got a group picture!

                                              making the tree cookie! (yep the still do that)

 Then, after a couple of weeks after we got home, the 3rd graders had a program where they sang lots and lots of songs about Gooseberry for the entire school and Smokey the Bear even made a special appearance!!

postings....

new posts coming soon! I promise!!

HELP!!!

K. I need help!!! I am trying to go private and I have no clue what to do, I can't figure out where you go to do this.....can anybody help me?!?!

R U KIDDING ME?!?!?!

so I was searching around and stumbled across this..... this is TOTALLY freaky!!! If you go to Stats on ur Dashboard and click on audience it will tell you how many people from each country are viewing your blog!! In one month this is who has viewed my blog! HELLOOOOO.....who in the heck would be looking at my blog from ITALY?!? or MALTA?? or how bout RUSSIA?!?! I mean come on!!! this is a little freaky!! I guess this means I will be going PRIVATE!!! cuz I dont need these wierdo people checking out my family!!!!

United States 867

Italy 23
Canada 17
Malta 10
Germany 6
Russia 5
United Kingdom 4
Luxembourg 4
Brazil 3
Netherlands 3

Ordination

On July 25th Brax got ordained a Deacon! I seriously can't believe he is old enough to pass the sacrament!! My kids are growing up way too fast and I am not liking that!!